# QANUS: An Open-source Question-Answering Platform

Source: [QANUS: An Open-source Question-Answering Platform](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa619d1e209131ce9f51e7>)

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Authors: Jun-Ping Ng, Min-Yen Kan

Published: 2015-01-01T20:51:25.000Z

## Abstract

In this paper, we motivate the need for a publicly available, generic software framework for question-answering (QA) systems. We present an open-source QA framework QANUS which researchers can leverage on to build new QA systems easily and rapidly. The framework implements much of the code that will otherwise have been repeated across different QA systems. To demonstrate the utility and practicality of the framework, we further present a fully functioning factoid QA system QA-SYS built on top of QANUS.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00311>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1501.00311.pdf>)